
Aggiornamento
Some words stick with you longer than others for reasons hard to identify. One such word is “aggiornamento,” which I learned along the way in

Some words stick with you longer than others for reasons hard to identify. One such word is “aggiornamento,” which I learned along the way in
(In which I try to tell fellow introverts to be themselves.) A short while after I started working at Western Theological Seminary, I found a

Every Tuesday and Thursday I teach a class on the church: ecclesiology. Students don’t have a clue what that word means – they take
I’m down at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College this weekend for a conference on . . . Billy Graham. The festivities opened last
Nearly thirteen years ago as I was completing my final year as an MDiv student at Princeton Seminary, a friend from Grand Rapids, MI quipped,
One of my fondest childhood memories is the weekly bringing home of an enormous stack of books from the library and heaping it next to

I’ve started putting more birthday reminders in my Google calendar, but it feels awkward when I set such events to “repeat annually,” because the screen
The Surrender of Breda is a gigantic, life-size painting by Diego Velasquez (1599-1660). Mentioning it here on The Twelve, with its inordinate amount of

As a member of the planning committee for the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin, I have the best committee work in the world: